Categoriearchief: Film

De Zwarte Ruyter will show a selection of the ‘one minute’ video
works, which were made during the participation of the artist’s at the
European Exchange Academy/ Berlin.

Every summer the European Exchange Academy (EEA) unites around
forty-five talented art students from all over the world.
For one month they study art in the desolate and inspiring environment
of Beelitz-Heilstätten, in a deserted clinic, 40 km south of Berlin/ DE.

The European Exchange Academy was founded in 2003 as an answer
to the growing incapability of regular European art academies.

For ‘De Wereld van Witte De With’ De Zwarte Ruyter will show a selection
of the ‘one-minutes’ video-works made by the participants of the EEA
during the years 2004-2011.

For In Discretion, Avi Krispin has shown new video and photography works that touch on the theme of comical fetish behavior, anonymous meetings and prearranged perverse rituals. In line with these works, De Zwarte Ruyter has functioned as a set, where visitors had the opportunity to participate in a new video project.

During this Goodnight Rotterdam Krispin will present this new video project and also a hand of other videoworks. Be welcome!

The initiative for the Goodnightfilm has arisen by a broad and major interest in the genre Cult. Proposing an alternating and a wide ranging choice of movienights to explore the big question: What is the definition of Cult?

Filmscreening: Friday 23 April 2010, 19:30 – With an introduction by Arnon Grunberg

Accompanied by Yvo Verschoor on the piano

De Zwarte Ruyter is pleasured to announce a film screening of City Lights favored and introduced by Arnon Grunberg and accompanied with live piano music by Yvo Verschoor. Suggested donation at the door: €5,-

City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of “talking” pictures, City Lights was immediately popular and is today remembered as one of the highest accomplishments of Chaplin’s prolific career. Although classified as a comedy, City Lights has an ending widely regarded as one of the finest and most moving in cinema history.

Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg was born in Amsterdam in 1971.He currently lives in New York. Grunberg was kicked out of high school at age seventeen. He started his own publishing company called Kasimir, specializing in non-Aryan German literature, at the age of nineteen, acted and wrote plays. When he was only twenty-three years old, his first novel Blue Mondays became a bestseller in Europe and won the Anton Wachter Prize. It has been translated in thirteen languages.